>> the french government and probably malika can speak better than me on this. but it's been actually a lukewarm sort of... >> rose: endorsement? >> not a very convincing position from the beginning. we didn't know what sarkozy or the government was going to stay about ousting ben ali. later he wanted to land in france, obviously french government said no. but i think people are going even deeper than that. people now are asking the question of, you know, where was france that in a way the general message in europe and the u.s. about arab countries is raising the red flag of islam as terrorism and all of that. but nobody's really talking about those totalitarian governments. that if you hear about human rights it's generally coming from small n.g.o.s or independent efforts. but you don't hear sarkozy in an official announcement denouncing ben ali and his government for the impression that they were perpetrating in the country. and so people are aware of that. and i think people are at this stage where frankly they do not care very much what sarkozy thinks. >> ro